#prom

The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

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Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#first #his #illusion #man #sweetheart

I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful of other people, ended up being kidnapped and held hostage at gunpoint in a windowless room with no ventilation for 36 hours. ↗

— Brigitte Nielsen

#being #bikini #coup #ended #held

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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A prime minister must not promise things that can't be fulfilled. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

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We had to decide: Do we want to do Saturday Night or go to our Senior Prom? We opted for Saturday Night Live. ↗

— Mary-Kate Olsen

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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man. ↗

— Ovid

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The sheik is, thank God, still alive and this hurts Bush who promised to his people to kill Osama. ↗

— Mohammed Omar

#bush #god #his #hurts #kill

Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

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